The Experience of Truth

The Experience of TruthAdvances a hermeneutic conception of truth as a mode of being, in dialogue with Aristotle, Nietzsche, Gadamer, Heidegger, Putnam, and Rorty. What does it mean to say that something is true? In this book Gaetano Chiurazzi argues that when we say that something is true, we do not say something merely about a state of affairs, but also about ourselves. Truth is not just the fact of "what is out there," but a mode of existence that shapes and transforms

and other subjective phenomena

This edition includes "How Geirald the Coward was Punished

Nasio makes the provocative claim that the entirety of the psychoanalytical corpus

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West Africa

but climate-related events also played a part in forcing millions of people to leave their homes in search of more habitable living areas

Mary Poppins

from his earliest mappings of using LSD psychotherapy

previously mainly undertaken on mammal subjects

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It is the first full-length work of its kind which argues that a deep level cognitive structure exists beneath an otherwise random collection of literary anecdotes

After a mystical experience on the battlefield